Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-16
Application tor . Patent.
Notice No. LA.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise City, Idaho, June 81, 1887.

Notice is hereby given that the Elmira
Silver Mining Com pany, by John Brown,
It's President and General Manager, whose
post office address Is Banner, Boise coun.
ty, Idaho Territory, has made application
for United States patent for the Banner
lode mining claim and mill site, situated
in Banner Mining District, Boise County,
Idaho Territory, consisting of fifteen hun
dred (l500) linear feet of the lode, and sur.
face ground six hundred $500 feet wide,
being Lot No. 81 A and acres of non,
mineral land not contiguous to said lode,
for mill site, being Lot No. 81 b, and
described in the field notes and plat of the
official survey on file in this office, with
magnetic variation at 10 degrees and 80
minutes East, as follows, in effect substan-
TALLY and correctly:
Said mining claim commencing at the
stake or post on which Is posted the no
tice of relocation, at point 100 feet in
westerly direction from the shaft sunk on
said lode, known as the old Banner shaft
or discovery shalt, and running thence in
an easterly direction 1900 feet to sim lar
stake or post on the line of said lode,
marked EAST Center Stake" together
with 600 feet In width the entire length of
said claim, being 800 feet in width on each
lode ut the surface. Said surface ground
being marked and described as follows, In
effect: Commencing ut point $3.50 feet
from United States mineral monument
No. /, In direction north 81 degrees, O6
minutes east therefrom, The property be-
ing on unsurveyed land--being cor. No.
l, running thence south IA degrees, "a
minutes east 800 feet to post marked
-. W." being cor. No. 2, and passing
through, at distance of 800 feet from the
original starting point, the west end cen.
ter post or stake on which is posted the
original notice of relocation by the Ell
mira silver Mining Company, thence
north II degrees % minutes east, 1900 feet
| to post marked rs. E." being cor. No.
3, thence north IA degrees, O4 minutes
west, across the east end center post or
stake 600 feet to a post marked IN. E."
being cor. No, 4, thence south II degrees
23 minutes west 1900 feet to a post mark
ed IN. W." which is the place of begin
ning containing an area of 30 $1,000
| acres. This location also covers and in
cludes what is known as the Big Crop
pings, and said mine or Banner lode be-
ing situated about thirty miles IN a north.
easterly direction from Idaho City, and
about one mile in northeasterly direc-
ton from the steam quartz mill owned by
the Elmira Silver Mining Company. AL.
so the MILL SITE on which stands the
Banner mill, and known as the Banner
mill site, located in triangular shape,
Immediately above what was formerly
called Wolverine Gulcb, and Smiths
Fork, and between them, described as fol-
lows; Beginning at a point $3.50 feet
from United States mineral monument
No. l, in direction thereffom south 80
deg. 81 minutes east thence running south
~ degrees, 10 minutes east, 574.5 feet to a
post, cor. No. 4, thence north SO degrees,
Oh minutes west 700 feet to post at the
junction of the right fork of Bear creek
with the main creek, cor No. l, running
thence north % degrees 50 minutes east
440 feet to post, cor. No. Q, thence north
81 degrees east 275.5 feet to post, cor. No.
3, which is the place of beginning; EN-.
bracing an area of five acres The north
line of said mill site being 3,9507 feet dis.
tant from the northwest corner, or cor.
No. of said Lot No. 81 A, the Banner
lode surface ground, in direction south
SO degrees 10 minutes 80 seconds west,
therefrom; all corners of claim being al.
SO marked us. L. 81 A, and all corners
of mill site marked U. s. L. 81 B. in addi.
ton to No of corner.
| ne salu mining Claim anu mil site De-
ing Of record in the office of the County
Recorder of said mining district at Idaho
City, in Boise County, Idaho Territory
The nearest known location being the Sill
yer Chief lode or claim, which joins the
SAID Banner lode and claim on the west.
Any aud all persons claiming adversely
any portion Of the said Banner lode min
ing claim or surface ground, or the mil
site aforesaid, are required to file their ad
verse claims thereto with the Register O
the United States Land Office, at Bots,
City, Idaho Territory, within the sixt,
days publication hereof, or they willb
barred by virtue Of the provisfunsof hi
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